December 2009 pictures

It has been awhile. I transferred to shutterfly.com.
I am not sure what I like better.
I added some recent pictures, December 2009.


Potty with Elmo



Gymnastics



The Carousel right before our picture with Santa.




Making Christmas cookies!

Summer Pictures

Poppy's summer started out with Carter's family in Richmond, Virginia and then a week at the beach in North Carolina. We had a great time and Poppy enjoyed Carter's family - she enjoyed the attention - all eyes on her at all the time.

Poppy found a chair to sit in on a day trip to Willminton, N.C., I don't have any more beach pictures this computer more later.



We left N.C. on the June 30th and drove to Mt. on July 1st and 2nd. We missed the Livingston, Mt. 4th of July parade on the 2nd by 6 hours. It was my hope that we would get to Mt. in time for the parade. Oh well, we got to attend the rodeo on the 4th. It was really fun. We had a great time as well with my family.

My niece, Ivy Ann, got to stay an extra week and we had fun with her as well. Biking, boating, swimming, walking, talking, hanging out, ...

We also had Poppy's 2nd bday before everyone left. She is unofficially "2".

We will leave for home @ the 25th. Wow, I only have 4 weeks before I go back to school. I only waited 10 months for this wonderful summer. I am so thankful I have a good job with lots of time off.

Here are the pictures to match to summer fun, hopefully more fun to come.

Uncle Dan and Poppy with their hands in their pockets.




Livingston Rodeo on the 4th of July, fun times. Aunt Ivy, Ivy Ann, Aunt Kim, Poppy, Mom and Dad, Uncle Dan was indisposed.


Uncle Dan, Aunt Ivy and Ivy Ann got Poppy a cowgirl hat, she kept calling everyone a cowboy, no matter the gender. If they had a hat on they were a cowboy.


Poppy wearing Great Grandpa Roy's hat.

Ivy Ann and Poppy playing in Grandma's car.



Hanging out with my cousin, Ivy Ann.


Ivy Ann and Poppy in our kayak before the big float. It was so windy we could only float for about an hour. It was fun while it lasted. Poppy yells boat anytime one is on a car and makes sure she mentions riding in the boat with Ivy on the Lagoon, everytime we drive by. Very fun to see her connect people and places and with a lot of enthusiasm.


Some bday pictures - our camera had a strange film on it so I will put more up soon.
Great Aunt Carlene and Uncle Jack in the back ground.





Poppy and Dad riding her new tricycle, Mt. style.

Poppy and Grandma "Mancy".

We took my dad to Billings to see his side of the family, Ivy Ann, me, Poppy and Grandpa.


Carter did the 2nd leg of his Canada to Mexico ride this summer. Poppy and I picked him up in West Yellowstone and drove through the Yellowstone park to get home. Poppy and I saw a bear, with 100 other people on the drive to West Yellowstone. We saw Elk, in the back ground, Bison, another bear and Carter and I saw a moose on our drive to Mt.

Catching Up

Poppy and our neighbor Lydia sitting in the barbie jeep.

Poppy loves to run in the water and run out. She will yell, "Watch out Dad wave coming."


Hiding in the rocks at the beach.


Carter and Poppy are in a Parent Participation class once a week. They meet with other parents (ususally moms) and toddlers and play, have snack, sing songs, and talk about topics that parents of toddlers are interested in. They went to the barn at Cal Poly. The baby cows licked Poppy's hand.





Dad and Poppy sleeping.

Carter and Mark riding bikes


Blueberries and yogurt!



At Rincon beach with the Bancroft's and the Russell's.

April Bancroft


Julie, Caylyn and Poppy.










Caylyn and Poppy taking a bath. Poppy was afraid of the octopus.




Park - Carter and Poppy go to the park every Friday morning.

Another Park Day

Poppy and Dad at the park, she was wearing my hat.

Spring Break / Easter

Poppy and Noodle standing by the big trees.



Cold and windy day on the N. California coast. The neat little town of Trinidad is behind Carter and Poppy. The town of Trinidad was another place we stopped on our honeymoon, great camp ground - Patrick's Point.


We planned a bike ride, however it was so cold we spent 5 minutes on the beach and got back in the car.


Camping on the Eel river.

Playing with sticks by the Eel river .







The redwoods was our Spring Break camping destination. We stopped at the Drive through tree. I have a video of the van attempting to drive through the tree. It looks like it would fit through the tree, however we aborted the mission early just in case.



We stopped at this tree on our honeymoon and 6 years ago with our friends Brian and Julie Russell.


Carter and Dave riding motorcyles - Kim let Carter ride her bike.




Easter Egg hunting in Santa Rosa. Poppy did not really understand why she was picking up the eggs. She filled her basket, opened the eggs and gave us the candy. What a girl.

















Riding to the Easter Egg hunt.



Cat in the Hat and some other Dr. Suess character. Poppy calls the Cat in the Hat - "Ham", from the Green Eggs and Ham book.


Coloring Easter Eggs at Aunt Kim's house.

NCAA Hoops

Poppy loves to play ball. She takes after her Grandpa, Mom, Dad, Uncle Dan and Cousin Ivy. Everything is "play ball" - at the top of her voice.

She can kick a ball, throw a ball, and hit a ball with a wooden spoon. She would love it if Noodle would play ball with as much enthusiasm as she plays ball. Noodle is good for three to four fetches with a lot of coaxing to return the ball for another throw.

Grandpa and Poppy play ball - Poppy escorts Grandpa into the bedroom to play ball when he visits as well as shooting hoops.

Poppy recognizes hoops around the neighborhood, on T.V. (as we watch March Madness - men and women night after night), and at Momma's school. I have Poppy rooting for my team - she knows Duke is the team to beat - well almost. We are Carolina fans - when Duke looses in the tourney.

Poppy needs to keep the tradition alive - Grandpa and Mom played on a State Championship basketball teams and we both played College basketball. Poppy will get to choose for herself; sports or no sports. The interest she shows now is fun to share her joy with the round ball.

Shooting hoops with Grandpa.






Grandpa keeping Poppy safe.

Aunt Kim

Poppy loves her Aunt Kim. We skype a few times a week and anytime we get near the computer she yells "Aunt Kim".





We got to see Aunt Kim and Cousin Andrea March 20th for a few minutes/hours. I had a P.E. conference near Andrea's college so we lucked out with family time.

The ride to Santa Clara.

Aunt Kim got Poppy some color crayons, so they colored and jumped on the bed at the hotel room.





Poppy enjoyed watching cousin Annya aka Andrea and smiling at her and her friends.



Santa Cruz, Ca.


Check out Poppy singing Twinkle Twinkle on Youtube at the right.

Matt and Colleen

Our friends Matt and Colleen came to the Central Coast for a visit. We met them six years ago on the mountain where our cabin is/was. They still live on the mountain. We went to visit them last weekend, snow on the ground and 22 degrees last Saturday morning. Poppy loved Colleen. Every time she saw Colleen she would yell, Colleen. It is neat to see how much she remembers and the impression people are already making in her young life.

Poppy got to meet them about a month ago. We spent and evening walking the dogs on the beach. Colleen took some pictures of us and Poppy.

Pictures of Matt and no pictures Colleen, but pictures of all of Colleen's hard work.
Matt was the M.C. for the Health Conference.

Matt getting ready for an acupunture demo.


Pete, their son, on the iphone!

Colleen's coffee bar.

Breakfast and


Lunch was provide


The snow!




Our old Cabin with a new deck on the front.


Poppy at the beach in January or so...